Thus the optical emission does not trace the outer disc, so cannot
constrain our inner disc models. Instead, we use the similarly dim
low/hard state spectra from XTE J1118+480 to argue for a non-disc
origin for the soft X-ray component. This object has an absorption
column which is an order of magnitude lower than that to SWIFT
J1753.5-0127. This gives a correspondingly more sensitive view of the
UV and soft X-ray emission, where it is clear that there is a large,
cool disc seen in the UV and EUV bandpass ([1]};
[2]}) which is completely inconsistent in
luminosity and temperature with the much weaker, higher temperature
'disc' emission seen in soft X-rays ([3]}; 2003;
[4]}). There are plainly two components in this
source, one which is consistent with a truncated disc, making no
impact on the soft X-ray emission, and another component which
produces weak soft X-ray flux. This is very similar to the spectrum
of 24 as shown in Fig. REF .
